[Coco] Glenside IDE 2.0 ATA question

[L. Curtis Boyle]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:53:21 -0600, Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>  
wrote:

>> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:58:07 -0600
>> From: "L. Curtis Boyle" <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>
>>
>> Couple of questions to start:
>> 1) Is it reporting back as an LBA capable drive?
>> 2) is it reporting back as ATA or ATAPI?
>> 3) When you say that "available sectors" is 0, is this the CHS mode
>> sectors you are referring to, or LBA? And, this the one that I referred  
>> to
>> as "# of user addressable sectors in XXX mode", correct?
>> 4) Are you setting up your descriptor in LBA or CHS mode?
>
> I couldn't really remember, so I tried it again:  detect_ide21.b09
> says: (some words dropped because I'm lazy)
>
> Drive 0
> ATA Identified
> Model #= WDC AC2700H
> Firmware = 20.21B29
> Serial = XXX
> Configuration= 0x427A
> Logical Cylinders = 1416
> Logical Heads = 16
> Logical Sectors = 63
> CHS mode  sectors = 1427328
> 16 sectors / multiple
> LBA
> LBA mode sectors = 1427328
> PIO timing = 1
> current logical cylinders = 0
> current logical heads = 0
> current logical sectors = 0
>
>
> I dunno, looked alright to me.  Used makedesc to create a couple of
> 96M LBA partitions, built a boot disk with them, nothing but error
> #247's.
>
> Any clues?
> Willard

Try creating a small test drive descriptor, and see if it can use that.  
Also see if DED /h0@ (or whatever descriptor you made) works on the drive.  
Also check to make sure that IDENT on the descriptor is not giving a CRC  
error.


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L. Curtis Boyle